In most cases, the patient must travel to a clinic, hospital, or doctor’s office to have the bulk blood specimen drawn. The experience can be time-consuming and stressful.
If samples are taken in a remote locale, the material must undergo complicated packaging, surrounded by dry ice, and labeled according to shipper’s instructions. The outer case must be marked as a hazardous material and, therefore, requires special handling by the carrier.
Microsampling means extracting a small, fixed amount of blood or other biological fluid. This new method achieves higher levels of accuracy than the Dried Blood Samples (DBS) that have been useful as an alternative to traditional whole blood sampling.
With minimal training, microsamples may be self-drawn by patients at their home, offering the opportunity of remote specimen collection to countless industry applications. Using a specially-designed Mitra™ Microsampler Patients in remote areas may submit the blood samples in the Mitra Microsampler from locations where clinics and hospitals are simply too far away for easy access.
Microsampling offers many benefits over the traditional bulky and fragile liquid blood sampling procedure. Some of these benefits are:
Additionally, healthcare facilities, resources, and personnel are less taxed with routine functions and may focus on other essential activities.